Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Meme

Crap... so Lummer at CinO tagged me with the dealy, and I wrote up a pretty long one (lots of explaining myself) on Friday night. Then apparently, when Sacamano posted from Irkutsk, it just took over mine. Anyway, it's too much to start from scratch, but here's part.

Fantasy Leagues: apparently I'm destined for feast or famine in these things. I won my NBA one (playoffs; 5/8 in the reg. season) and came 2nd of 20 in my NHL one. In baseball though, I'm T11th in a 12-team league (thanks for the company, Abboud!) and that's considerably better than I did in March Madness.

One Thing I'd Change If I Could: click through the pic of the Lenin statue in the post below. I'd have that review go the other way...

I too, at one time, was a Guzman fan. When I was about 13, we made a trip to Minneapolis to catch three Jay's games in three days.

A friend and I were staking out the players entrance to the stadium about 5 hours before the first pitch, and we were the only people around for miles. Guzman gets out of a cab, the jheri curl in all its glory, and we approach him for an autograph. He brushes past us, mumbling "not today guys, I'm pitching"

That was the day my bubble was burst regarding hero worship of pro athletes.

I remember getting into a debate about which player would have a better NBA career - Laettner or Shaq. I argued Laettner since his smooth shooting style combined with his height would be ideal for 3 pointers *I bow my head in shame*.

Well, I listed Michael Smith. Without looking, there's also Dave Steen, a Canadian who got a bronze in Seoul (he lost to two doped up Germans), Dan O'Brien and Dave Johnson and the Czech guy who was good in the late '90s.

That ain't half-bad, considering I watch decathlon relatively infrequently. I probably can't name that many Washington Capitals.